Were

//wə(ɹ)//

Synonyms for "were" (21 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (5)

Verb(1 words)
Noun(4 words)

Strong matches (6)

Related words (10)

Related word relations

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6 relation types

Synonyms

2 entries

Related terms

11 entries

etymologically related_to

3 entries

form of

1 entries

has context

2 entries

related to

21 entries

Showing 16 of 21 words.

Sample sentences

23 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Humans were never meant to live forever.

Source: tatoeba (1376)

I was wondering if you were going to show up today.

Source: tatoeba (1464)

In the 1950's, the Finns were cited as having one of the least healthy diets in the world.

Source: tatoeba (1534)

Oh, my white pants! And they were new.

Source: tatoeba (1553)

Showing 4 of 23 available sentences.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.